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Almost exact same thing happened to my friend in 7th grade as well. Although he clearly lost the fight, he definitely won in the long term. This was in the lat
by jeffwass 10y ago
Almost exact same thing happened to my friend in 7th grade as well. Although he clearly lost the fight, he definitely won in the long term.
This was in the late '80s. One of the bigger bullies came up to him in the locker room out of the blue, said "hey geek" and punched him in the chest. Amazingly calmly he replied "Don't hit me" and punched him back, pretty weakly in comparison. I remember thinking at the time "what are you, fucking insane, hitting him back?" It immediately escalated into a full-on fight with the bully getting a good eight or so hard punches in which my friend futilely tried to avoid or hit back where he could. It was stopped pretty quickly when the gym teacher arrived and put the bully in a headlock.
So even though he basically got his ass kicked, nobody ever picked on him again. At least not physically.
Bullies are like thieves, and go for the easy targets. Putting up a fight, no matter how futile at the time, will likely remove you from the list of easy targets.
- munificent 10y agoI think about this every time I see those goofy youtube videos where something like a house cat chases a bear away from their yard. The cat doesn't have to be able to defeat the bear, it just has to make it not worth the bear's effort to fight.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoUnfortunately if a teacher put a student in a headlock today they would probably be fire, charged, banned from teaching, publicly shamed, called a child abuser, and finally executed.
- M_Grey 10y ago"Death is too good for them!" -"Caring" Parents
- wavefunction 10y agoA bit of hyperbole. See the police officer who body slammed the black girl and ultimately faced no sanction at all.
- vertex-four 10y agoThat's likely mostly because they're a police officer.
- triplesec 10y agoand because the girl was black
- clort 10y agoSimilar happened to me, though I was older at 17, and my assailant was a year or so younger - I always say that he pounded me because he was clearly the better fighter, and a rough and tumble kind of guy but that it was probably pretty clear at that point that I just didn't care and he never came back at me because at the end of it, it would have been clear to everybody that he was tussling on the floor with a loser and his friends & peers were watching. For much the same reason you don't argue with an idiot.